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THURSDAY, July
Valuable Household Furniture, Comprising:--
INTIMATIONS
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM,
JUST received a large Consignment of (1) LACTOGEN the most digestiva food for Infants which keeps good in quality during Hot weather (H) LAC- TOSE (Milk Sagar) for sweetening the foods of Infants and Dyspentira (3) MILFORD-MCGRATH FLUID INSEC TICIDE the Best Fluid for destroying Fiess, Mosquitoes, Bugs, Flies and all other Insect Festa in Summer days, and (4)
JOHN CAHILL'S GOLDEN FLEECE, MAGIC and CINDERELLA SOAPS for keeping everything clean in Houses.
PRICES are Very Moderate. Ins pectica and Enquiries are cordially
Toak batstun, Tapestry covered drawing room suite. Canton blackwood Envios cabinet, jus table, marbis top table, armchair teapers, marble topfosited fardinieres and sto Teak music Finse vasee, Lace stand, Carpets, curtains, etc., eta.
Teak extension dicing table. diting chairs, sideboard with bevelled mirro dinner waggon, glass cabloct, Bras
mounted fender and fire brasser.
Teak wardrobes with bevelled glas doors, dressing tables with bevelled airrari, marble top washstands, Leather covered armchairs, etc.
Also
One Cottage piano by Coliard
and Collard
And
A quantity of Plants in pote
Oa view from Wedneelay, the 27th
July.
Catalogues will be issued. Tema: Cash on deve:3
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Hongkong, July 20, 1921.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Leral and Storage of water in reservoire
the 1st July, 192: *----
JEFE AT NELL DIZRICT WATZA WORKS
16
LEVEL.
getto 3 71, 10), 71, Evler¤† Levelwist, oradco-
OTRIZON
Ty Brewsch 26 (1)
. Bejor every Led with over
The closest
Lars with crentice
with overes
Tak 11th (Level win overine
Blow oreTRON
Nel Change to the Palow overflow
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PEMACY IN MILLION AND DESIKATE OT SJRZOWE,
Intern
Total
15 གས
136.21
I.
233.90
100020
1,02,50
1145 50.56
Contemption of water in the City od Bill District in millions and dedmale
galina during the month of June.
Components
120.
1921
COMMERZTías pet hand
$94 4.
+10 the E 30.0* 245
jafion
and population
Constant apply in all districts during June of both 1920 and 1921.
LOWLOON #ATES WORKI LETAL
Bone Grafika- I
than
1920.
I.
Lavel
Lovei Eenvour... with uratow With prezłow EPILLOS EX MILAJOIE AT: PROCHÁZA OF GALIZER
190 London Gravitation (
19:1.
5
Comptica of water in Eewicon is Bons and decimals of gallone during the monch of June.
Decoration -
Slated Fruition.
Omartian Der bead
gut day
1326
321 21 130,4
&
TES
The Govertinent Analyst's reports shav that the water is of excellent quadly.
Population supplied estimated from TRS1 Census.
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AND PYGMIES.
GRAVEYARD OF DYING RACES.
NOTHING FINER BOTTLED of CANNED."
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certain diseases by new-comers from for human ficsb. An enthusiastic Europe and other parts of Africa. cannibal, with whom I discussed the But certainly there is nothing more matter, gave me the useful informa extraordinary than this drift eftion that the palms of the hands peoples from the Sahara borders into and the feet nearest the toes arc, in this district. which they have his opinion, the best eating. apparently decided to make the grave, In Uganda I met a man who was of their races.
organising supplies for Belgian native "I trekked up country to Coquilhat- troops during the operations in Ger- In the following exclusive interviewville, which sits right on the Equator. man East Africa. He told me that with Mr. Frederick W. H. Migood, in the Belgian Congo, and thence one day when he delivered rations on F.R.CS., F.B.A.I., who has just re-
took river steamers, some belonging the hoof the troops exclaimed. "Oh, turned from two journers across to the Belgian Government and some don't give us a cow give us a carrier!" equatorial Africa, from sea to sea, theto Levers-who have vast palm cil Daily Chronicle is able to give details plantations and crushing mills on the of the most remarkable instance of bank, to Standleyville race-suicide on record.
Mr. Migeod has had a good deal of experience of Africa, for he was 19 years in the Colonial service, on the West Coast, and is an authority on native languages, concerning which he has written five books.
"I also met 1 Portuguese who was captured by natives, tied to a tree, and then carefully marked out into -"While trekking I found that no. joints with chalk,so that the customers map of Central Africa that is more could select what they wanted. A than a few years old can be accurate, steamer coming up the river landed e so far as native villages ste concerned, party to collect wood, and his awk- I would arrive at a spot where the ward plight, was discovered and re- map led me to expect a village, and medied.
find nothing but jungle. The reason "In the Belgian Congo I was very His latest journeys were of private is that the natives never make per- struck by the development of the venture, in the interests of anthro-manent villages. In about five years country. The Belgians are doing pological research, and furnished him the huts begin to fall down, and the excellent work, and building fine with much of interest, both of ex soil becomes foul, and as the African towns and railways. Stanleyville, perience and information.
has not much idea of repairing, but which must be the most central town refers to rebuild, he moves away from in Africa, is well built of local red six to ten miles, and then sets up a brick, with a cathedral, a good house new village. You find this sort of for the vice-governor-and some fine thing all over the Congo.
avenues.
1
"But no adventures." he carefully insisted, when he was telling me of his journeys. On all those thousands of miles, more than half among can nibal tribes, I never carried a revolver,
"Through the Ituri Forest, from I took sporting guns, and a rifle for.
"A part of the journey through Stanleyville to Uganda, was a three big game, but all I did if the natives French territory I made in native months trek. There is a very fair became troublesome was to get my canoes on the Upper Ogowe. These track, but it is a depressing journey, 'boys' to shoot them away.
CANOES THAT WRITEE.
"Walking across the heart of Africa canoes are long and narrow, two feet in the gloom of the forest, with the is to-day as safe as walking across wide and 50 feet from end to end, and monotony of seeing nothing but the London, and when you hear of travel being very flimsy in construction trunks of huge trees that shoot lers and explorers having difficulties they writhe and wriggle like snakes. straight up for about 100 feet to the or adventures you can put it down to This makes for safety. The river first branch.
has many sh lows and rapids, and "It was a great relief to come out inexperience or want of tact.
"I left England in November, when you run on a rock you wriggle of this forest into grass land, and 1919," he told a correspondent,, "and off agait. Each of my cances had later to sight Mount Ruwenzori with left Libreville, on the West Coast, in the whole time in order to keep it made my way to the north of the one native standing up and dancing its snowcapped peaks. Thence 1 French equatorial Africa in January in a proper state of wriggle... Victoria, Nyanza, which I crossed by 1920, on a journey from ocean that occupied in all 11 months. The re- turn journey was made by another
route in three months.
RACIAL SUICIDE.
"I had my first sight of pygmies at steamer. Thence I travelled by train Krogo, in French territory, and to Mombasa, and so reached the kept meeting them all the way across, ocean on the other side of Africa, in especially in the Ituri Forest, on the December, 1920. west ride of Uganda. They are not
THE RETURN JOURNEY,
"The most remarkable feature of the country between the north of the French territory and the coast, the Gaboon area is that it is becoming a vast graveyard for the dying races of "I could get no direct evidence were difficulties about taking them Central Africa. For some time the regarding the great problem of the home either by way of the Medi sands of the Sahara have been ad- pygnies the question of whether terranean or the Cape. So I decided vancing' southward, and there has they have languages of their to make another journey across Africa been a steady trek of native tribes, own. Aft I met spoke the language in order to take them home again, as as if pushed by the sands, south and of the neighbouring tribes.
well as to see a little more of the west, into the French territory, "It was in the Itori Forest that I country. There they are held up by the more saw most of the pygmies. There vigorous coastal races, and settle they generally attach themselves to fammerly the capital of German East other tribes, and do the hunting for Africa, took train to Kigoma, on "And they settle down as if deter them, keeping the village larders Lake Tanganyika--and a fine railway mined to die out. It is, indeed, the supplied with meat, in return for it is, a tribute which the British, ea most amazing case of racial suicide, vegetables and other fooda. For old pioneers and colonists, should re- on a huge scale, that the world has these little men are great hunters, cognise, to German work. Here I ever seen I passed among tribes and with their small bows and arrows, walked to. Ujiji to see the tree which where the women refuse to bear will, in sufficient numbers, boldly still marks the spot where Stanley children, and in another generation, attack the biggest game. :*
met Livingstone. Afterwards I cross
so small as people have been led to: "There I met with a problem. think. At any rate, all the men Fraw I had brought two native boys averaged about 4ft. 8in, the women (Mendes) as my personal servante all being two or three inches leas. the way from the West Coast. There
down.
iame ideas
CANNIBALISM REMPANT.
"I went down to Dar-es-Salaam,
el thee to Albertville, took train
if present ideas prevail they will simply die out. I heard of a tribe "A low tribes, notably the Bakurat Kabalo unde a month's trek futher north, where the chief has abes-and the Balese, have entirely absorbed through grass country to Luramte, lutely forbidden inarriage, with this a pygmy element. Some of the tribes got Belgian river steamers for some may be inclined to look down on them fistance, and finished up on a train Bat the little men are quick to resent which took me alongside an bcean this, claiming that they were the or steamer at Matadi, in the Congo iginal owners of the country, and if the estuary. This second crossing, owing tabe becomes too insighting the pyg to my frequent train and steamer mis clear cut. →
journeys, occupied only three months.
Bo pronounced is this lack of the will to lie, that many tribes have to be compelled by the French authorities to grow ough food to keep them salves alive, and the kis bi pottery and the making of agricultural plements have quits died ut
THE DESIRE TO D.Z OUT.
"I believe that, this desire to die
ont dates from the introciation of the
I was surpad to find cannibaliere rampant all across the Congo comtry, from the coast to the Ituri Forest. So
"Now I want to be off again, as
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921.
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